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Newspaper
Reporter Boyden
Location
Boyden, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1909
Page
1
The narrator recounts mischief aboard a ship after a phosphorus scare and a near overboard fate. He provokes the crew with electric tricks and pranks, bonds with the captain, and plans to meet his father while dreaming of more adventures and meals with government money.
The Chinese board of education proposes a shih fan biueh tang civil normal college in Peking to train teachers for civil schools and colleges. It will teach English French German Russian and Japanese alongside Chinese classics with seasoned instructors. Establishment is planned this year with estimated annual expenditure of about 100000 taels (about 370000).
The Tageblatt notes women’s growing role at Berlin University with 449 entering the largest high school last summer and 753 attending the winter session. Twelve degrees were conferred, ten in medicine and two in philosophy, showing progress though full rights are not yet recognized.
A London social splash featured a lieutenant bragging about Africa to an audience, unaware he spoke to the famed explorer Stanley. The crowd pressed him with questions as the real Stanley listened in, finally revealed when a guest asked if the speaker was the explorer Stanley.
A tenant bursts into speech, reddens, then rushes from the room amid a roar of laughter, joined by Stanley Jeined, in a vivid, humorous moment captured in the page.
A middle aged matron narrates a strange sequence starting with lending 54 cents to a panic stranger in a department store then giving a dollar to a robbed woman downtown. They later rejoin and laugh at a prank, leaving her feeling she was the joke.
A defense attorney argues that a tomato flying with intent could not have produced a black eye, dismissing the evidence as improbable. The London Telegraph notes the exchange as the trial proceeds with the humorous remark shaping courtroom banter.
The article explains how Latin and Saxon day names derive from ancient deities and discusses planetary influences on daily gems. It notes Sun and Moon days use pearls to diamonds, with Mars Tuesday favoring rutile gems, Thor Thursday amethysts, and Venus Friday emeralds, among others.
A historical note tracing the lotus myth from Homer to Tennyson, linking the lotus fruit to exotic legends. It discusses the lotus as a tantalizing plant said to trap eaters in dreamlike pleasure, its identification with a Central African shrub, and tales of its intoxicating effects in Tunis.
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